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I had earlier mentioned the review of the “Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States” report that Climate Skeptic was doing. In that review, Climate Skeptic called the following graph and the stated conclusions from it BS.

Evidently the original author didn’t like his review and challenged him publicly. This is fantastic as it allows for the open sharing and discussing of the ideas, thoughts and conclusions. There needs to be more of this type of exchange on critical issues such as climate change.

Climate Skeptics basic charge is that the increase in disruptions is more a result in differences in data collection over time than it is a change in climate disruptions. Such a rapid increase in events is almost surely not solely due to weather. Read more...(261 words, 1 image, estimated 1:03 mins reading time)

If you read this site often, you will know that I am an engineer by training (even though I don’t currently practice). I tend to respect this profession a great deal as being fairly straight-forward and hard working. As a group, they also tend to be a pretty smart bunch.

One of the major trade rags in engineering is C&EN (Chemical and Engineering News). It is edited by Mr. Rudy Baum. If you aren’t in that trade, you would probably never pick up an issue so you may not be familiar with it. I haven’t read the publication in a long time but was recently made aware of a bit of controversy by Climate Depot. While the readers of C&EN are likely not climatologists, the science of CO2 and its affect on the atmosphere is very steeped in chemistry which their target market knows a bit about. Read more...(1161 words, estimated 4:39 mins reading time)

I found this study by reading the blog at AccuWeather.com. If you are interested in climate, then you should spend time reading what the meteorologists over there have to say.

A study by 3 researchers and published in the Journal of Geophysical Research has concluded that the weather variations (both increases and decreases) are the result of natural climate processes. They find that the Southern Oscillation is a key indicator of changing global atmospheric temperatures seven months later.

There is an article in the USAToday (that is based on an article in Nature Geoscience) that is getting a lot of web traffic lately.

While few people would call me a global warming alarmists, I do think it is important to have relatively balanced perspective on all of this. In fact, that is the essence of this blog.

Most reputable scientists without an agenda (which likely excludes anyone associated with Al Gore) had concluded long ago that it wasn’t the CO2 concentrations that would deliver the doom and gloom of the alarmists. Rather, the concern was a feedback loop that would be accelerated by a fairly rapid expansion of carbon dioxide. One theory is that this CO2 increase would cause temperatures to increase slightly which causes an increase in H2O in the atmosphere which further increases the temperature in an escalating fashion. Read more...(456 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Dilbert and his boss once again point out the hypocrisy of life. In this case it is due to trying to be environmentally good.

It is hard to be good. Sorry, Mr. Gore, but it is true. Here are a few inconvenient facts: Read more...(149 words, 1 image, estimated 36 secs reading time)

It is very dangerous to the health of you and your children to live in a home or enter a room where a CFL (compact fluorescent) bulb has broken. That danger is minimized if you have had the room cleaned by a hazardous waste team. What is the problem? Mercury. Check out this article.

I first saw this video of Alan Carlin from the EPA over at Gore Lied. I thought you should take a look.

I think Dr. Carlin looks pretty credible. He is obviously not a great public speaker and he can probably count on one hand the number of times he has been interviewed on national television on one hand. He, wisely, doesn’t do a lot guessing in his interview and he even answers one question by saying that he can only report on what he was told. Good for him – report the facts and let the conclusion grow from there. Read more...(221 words, estimated 53 secs reading time)

I have talked about RealClimate.org many times in the past. In general, the gentlemen over there are pretty smart but they do tend to be one-sided in their analysis. They consistently take the side of “global warming is caused by humans” and they don’t treat others with much respect.

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